ARRL VHF QSO Party 2001 June 9-11
GRID SQUARE: DM54
CALL: K5AM
ARRL SECTION: New Mexico
Single Operator High Power
VALID PTS PER QSO GRID SQUARE
QSOs QSO POINTS MULTIPLIERS
50 MHz 511 1 511 183
144 MHz 26 1 26 12
222 MHz 4 2 8 3
432 MHz 6 2 12 3
TOTAL 547 557 201
SCORE 111,957
Site: Horse Mountain DX Ranch, DM54wa, 7900 ft.
Shack: Ford F250 4WD and camper top.
Power: Honda propane generator; no shutting down rig
and pouring gas every few hours (usually required in
the middle of a big run) as in previous years.
No power lines, no noise.
View: Clear from 270 through North to 120.
Looks down 1400 ft NE onto the Plains of San Agustin
and the VLA radio telescope 30 miles away at 6500 ft.
6M rig: Signal/One CX7 (1969), converted to 6M.
(No transverter; 50 directly to first IF at 40, then to 9 MHz.
Fewer conversions result in better dynamic range
and fewer spurs. First crystal LO = 90 MHz.)
Heath SB-220 (1970), converted to 6M.
Two M2 6M7JHV in two rotatable directions, each at 32 ft.
Effective antenna height NE: 1432 ft??
First bounce at 80 miles??
Score also posted at:
http://www.tiac.net/users/reilly/junscores.html
73,
Mark, K5AM
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Horse Mountain DX Ranch, DM54wa
7900 feet; Honda generator power
Shack: Ford F250 and camper.
k5am@zianet.com
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Home: DM62ni
Mark Mandelkern
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
k5am@zianet.com
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First callsign: W9ECV, Milwaukee, 1948.
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